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Three years after word-of-mouth buzz and a PlayStation Plus promo launched Psyonix’s little-known indie game into millions of homes, Rocket League’s premise remains thankfully undiluted in its joyous, well-honed simplicity. It’s still all about cars playing soccer (football), except the ball is enormous and the cars can cruise along the walls and briefly onto the ceiling. More excitingly, they can also boost into the air for acrobatic passes and sensational shots. And when the ball hits the net, it explodes with a dazzling array of color and sound… or a bevy of party balloons and cheering children, a field-soaking surge of fruit chunks and juice, or even a dabbing Grim Reaper. Rocket League keeps steering harder into absurdity—there’s now a flaming T-Rex goal explosion from Jurassic World, by the way—but the core focus on a tight five minutes of frenzied, high-octane antics is luckily intact. What’s changed is the level and quality of … [Read more...] about Rocket League: the 3-year review

Rocket League, the incredibly popular car soccer game, is making its way to Xbox Game Pass. The car sports game is already available on Xbox One but thanks to a leak, we now know that it will now be a part of Xbox Game Pass. Thanks to a post on ResetEra by user Railgun, we know that Rocket League will be making its way to Xbox Game Pass. Later today Microsoft will be live streaming its Inside Xbox show, which will provide updates on all things Xbox. Given that there has been no official word as of yet about Rocket League coming to Xbox Game Pass, we could expect an announcement during the show. The next Inside Xbox will be live streamed on July 3 pm ET, 2 pm PT and 8 pm BST. The show will be live streamed on Mixer, Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube. Xbox Game Pass is a subscription service that launched last year. The games service is often described as the “Netflix for Games.” Xbox Game Pass has been getting more attention in recent months as more people are starting to use … [Read more...] about Rocket League is Coming to Xbox Game Pass

Denmark studio Hero Blocks have announced a Block Sport PC open beta running on Steam during May 24-27. Block Sport is a competitive team esports game that looks like Rocket League if instead of punting balls with cars, you instead bashed them around with giant hammers and axes. It blends brutal combat with a sport scoring system to create "brutal team based gladiatorial conflicts." Hero Blocks released a trailer for the game in time for the announcement of the open beta, which has bulky, spikey robot men dashing around an arena trying to chaotically bat a ball into the opposing sides' goal. The batting isn't limited to the ball, however, as you'll be using gnarly-looking weapons that can also be used for a spot of brutal gladiatorial combat. Hero Blocks said, "Players control the power and speed of their attacks, and they’ll need all of that precision to smash through the goal plate and score for their team, or smash the other team apart, piece by piece." The … [Read more...] about Block Sport PC Open Beta: Rocket League with Gladiatorial Combat

Psyonix has announced a partnership between Rocket League and the WWE. This collaboration will be going on throughout 2018. As part of this deal, Rocket League players can expect to see the game in real life all over the WWE universe. It will be showing up regularly on UpUpDownDown, WWE's YouTube gaming channel with more than 1.4 million subscribers. The show will be hosted by Austin Creed, also known as WWE superstar Xavier Woods. The presence of Rocket League will also be felt at live WWE events in the form of sponsorships. According to the site, the game can already be seen as recently as the Elimination Chamber event a few nights ago. Rocket League players who are also huge WWE fans will be happy to learn that the game will be a partner of one of wrestling's biggest events in the world, WrestleMania 34. Attendees will have the opportunity of playing Rocket League at WrestleMania 34, which will take place in New Orleans starting from April 8th, 2018. That's not all, as the world of … [Read more...] about Rocket League Announces Collaboration With WWE

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 15:52 GMT It’s a pretty busy week as far as deals go on the Xbox Game Store. This week’s round-up of deals includes big games such as Call of Duty: WW2, Destiny 2, and a whole host of non-Activision published titles like 2K’s XCOM 2, The Bioshock Collection, Mafia 3, NBA 2K, and WWE 2K – to name a few. Ubisoft is another big publisher with games to sell you this week. Ghost Recon Wildlands, Rainbow Six Siege, and Watch Dogs 2 are all included. Outside of these big three, you’ll find hits like Rocket League, Hitman, Injustice 2, and many smaller and indie titles also on sale. Some offers are available only for Gold members, though the majority this week are available for all. All deals are live now through Monday, February 19. Here are the discounts: Xbox One Aeternoblade* – 33% Akuatica: Turtle Racing – 35% Arslan: The Warriors Of Legend – 50% Battleborn – 75% Beyond Eyes – … [Read more...] about Xbox Live Deals: Call of Duty: WW2, XCOM 2, Destiny 2, Hitman, Rocket League, more